*shakes fist*

[meganbmoore]

 EBAY PEOPLE!

Stop outbidding me on full runs of Cardcaptor Sakura!

It makes Sakura all upset and disappointed!  Do you know what happens when Sakura is upset and disappointed?  It makes her have a Kurogane moment, and then everything descends into gothic shoujo crack!  Too much of that is bad for the brain!

(Seriously, it's the third or so set I've been outbid on.  I WILL ONLY GO SO HIGH!)

ALSO!!!

(non-fist-shakey)

While I was at work, prozacparkasked me my opinion about #148 of today's Fandom Secrets.  Since she is now logged off and at least one other person here might be interested in it (redbrunja, there aren't any Avatar spoilers in the post) I shall just post it.  The secret was along the lines of "I slash m/m because I think the female characters deserve a lot better than what canon gave them."  I've seen that a few times before, and just ignoring any other opinions I have on fanon shipping,  while I often agree that yes, the girls in fiction could do better and it seems they're just told "Here is the main guy!  You must accept him even though he doesn't appreciate you or treat you well!" my reaction to that response to it is always "But, if you object on her behalf, why are you having her twiddle her thumbs while you send him off to have fun?"

(No, really, if you think canon gave her the short end of the stick and you want her to get better and you're going to do a fanon ship, why doesn't she get to go have fun while the guy who doesn't treat her good enough sits there and sulks?  Why does he get to have all the fun?) 

ETA:  I probably don't have to say this, but just in case:  no bashing the secret maker.  Whoever s/he may be.

Comments

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Well said.

But there's a major cognitive dissonance to the whole thing. (I think part of it is "I think he's hot anyway, and since I don't like them together, I'll have him be hot with someone else and she doesn't have to put up with him.")

Oh, major cognitive dissonance, with a fucking huge dollop of mistoginist females (which I assume, until proven otherwise, that slash fans slash because they aren't comfortable/hate their own femaleness.)

(Really, let's face it, most girls in anime and manga really DO deserve better...I'm just forgiving because, in most of mine, there's some monomania and extreme devotion and the leaving of trails of dead bodies for your girlie, and I just get very forgiving when those things are going on...)

Look, when you say they deserve better and don't give it to them, what you're REALLY saying is they deserve worse. There's no real other way to slice it.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I will be completely honest here and say that there are a LOT of male characters, esp. in anime and manga, who I know perfectly well I wouldn't like nearly as much if they weren't seriously hung up on/committed to their girls. The annoying thing is that a lot of people(slash fans and otherwise) also like them because of that...and then hate the girls. Because they're girls and held to 50 times stricter standards.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Don't you just want to reach through the computer and smack em?

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Yeah. A friend and I had a long conversation last night about how SDK wouldn't be worth reading without Yuya, because without her, there's no plot, and all the friendship stuff and bonding that everyone loves so much wouldn't be there, because she's what keeps the characters together, and she reminds them that they like each other beyond someone to try to kill. Which, of course, she gets hated and dismissed for because she actually MATTERS.

Anytime someone's primary complaint about something, or the only thing they dislike, is the main female character, and they spend all their time talking about how wonderful the male characters are and don't bother to say anything about any female character beyond how they're annoyed by them, my respect tends to drop.